"...Because exploration and interaction is about asking questions."
Sup /adv/. Does this sentence look gramatically correct for you?
>>16981151
grammatically*
also a bump
>>16981151
ARE* about asking questions.
>>16981168
Can you elaborate please? Don't know why, but my gut screams that I should put "is" there.
>>16981214
Because 'are' is the present, plural, indicative, and you have two, thus plural, subjects.
>>16981220
*two independent, thus plural, subjects
>>16981220
I would argue that you should have said
>Because 'are' is the present, plural indicative, and you have two independent, thus plural, subjects.
Commas man
>>16981151
You could have "exploration is about" or "interaction is about", but using both of them together it becomes "are about". Example:
>Tony is happy
>Dave is happy
>Tony and Dave are happy
It might sound less clunky if you were to add another word in there - I think "exploration and interaction are both about asking questions" flows a bit better.
Also, this might be specific to British English and it might also be soething they taught thirty years ago but don't teach any more, however I'm certain you're not meant to start a sentence with "Because" unless it's going to be a complete sentence, wheres yours is fragmented.
>>16981329
I presumed, from the ellipsis, that there is more to the sentence.
If only you guys were as good at giving dating advice as you were giving literature advice then we might have a decent board here!
>>16981329
You statement doesn't really make sense; in formal writing you can't start any fragment with anything because you shouldn't have sentence fragments to begin with.
